The questions
1 The Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers became known as what?
2 Up to 3m long and 300kg, what is the Mekong Giant?
3 In 1961, who became the first living artist to exhibit at the Louvre?
4 Who might take the UKCAT or BMAT?
5 Which Russian tsar had more wives than Henry VIII?
6 Who borrowed the sword Hrunting from Unferth?
7 What is the only city on the river Wye?
8 What did the Sunday Express describe in 1928 as “a book that must be suppressed”?
What links:
9 Dannebrog; Maple Leaf; Old Glory; Hinomaru; Tiranga?
10 Kimber; Wheatley; Whaite; Quinn; Birtwhistle?
11 Charles de Gaulle; Napoleon Bonaparte; Marcel Dassault; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?
12 Lake Placid (twice); Squaw Valley; Salt Lake City?
13 George III; John Taverner; Mr Emmet; Earl Magnus; Doctor of Myddfai?
14 Cholent; bigos; scouse; feijoada; cassoulet; wat?
15 Paul Cummins; Tom Piper; 888,246?
The answers
1 Tolpuddle Martyrs.
2 Catfish.
3 Georges Braque.
4 Prospective medical students (aptitude tests).
5 Ivan IV (the Terrible) had eight wives.
6 Beowulf.
7 Hereford.
8 Radclyffe Hall’s The Well Of Loneliness.
9 Names of national flags: Denmark; Canada; US; Japan; India.
10 Winners of the Great British Bake Off.
11 French airports named after: in Paris; Ajaccio; Châteauroux; Lyon.
12 US Winter Olympics venues.
13 Subjects of Peter Maxwell Davies operas.
14 Types of stew.
15 Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red: designed poppy; designed setting; total number.
